Site has been live for about two months. It has increased my business booked via the web two to three fold. I'm working hard toward moving up to a Google page rank of seven over the next few months. Still waiting for internal pages to be indexed. All thoughts and observations will be welcomed. Thank you!

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You have a very attractive website.
It is big, and you have a lot of content. What I would suggest doing is taking advantage of your massive content. Use "Anchor Text". Go through your pages and anywhere and everywhere you can link to other pages in your site from inside the copy, do it. This will build relevance for your content. You currently have links accross the bottom of your site which is good, but it isn't as effective as embedding links (Using your key phrases) in the actual copy of your site.

Good job,
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Very attractive website. It is clean and professional in appearance. The colors and pix are harmonious. Download is fast, text is well written.

Your hotel looks like an inviting place to vacation!

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Excellent site, very clean very professional. You definatley have the content and appeal.

A fantastic representation of your business.

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Nice site. Obviously the result of lot's of hard work. I did notice a couple of things that will interest you. Several of the content pages main image contain an 'alt' tag that says 'click to enlarge' rather than an appropriate descriptive and there is no event to actually enlarge the image.

http://www.vtcomfortinnsuites.com/ht...tractions.html

On this page, on the same image, the javascript references an image that doesn't exist.

http://www.vtcomfortinnsuites.com/ht...ys-offers.html

Other than that, I agree with the previous reviewers. Keep up the good work!

I saw the thumbnail photo on the main page of webproworld, and immediately thought, Ha! I bet this is a Vermont site. We just moved from Orwell, Vermont, to Blacksburg, Virginia in June. Blacksburg is an idyllic town for us but I'll aways be a Vermonter at heart :)

I think the aesthetic and content presentation is great. I'd suggest optimizing the page sizes to speed delivery of pages on mobile or modem connections. Some pages appear to weigh in at around 60,000 characters, which is a very long wait for some folks. I don't think this potential wait is terribly damaging to your sales conversion, but as you know even a 1% increase in conversion is measurable from a profit and performance perspective. If you work in a WYSIWYG tool, check to see if the whitespace can be eliminated. The source code is nicely indented, suggesting a template-based site, or a carefully hand-coded site, but the indents take up space. For example, the page http://www.vtcomfortinnsuites.com/ht...tractions.html is about 58,000 characters. If you remove the leading whitespace (indents), the file shrinks to 37,000 characters. For a typical modem connection that may decrease the wait time from 20 seconds to 12.5 seconds.... On a mobile connection the decrease in wait time might be even more substantial.

My other suggestion would be to continue working on your link development. There are lots of strongly Vermont-relevant sites out there, and I think getting more links from these sites over time will boost your search engine relevance across the board over the long term.

Sean.

Another Vermonter now stuck in Virginia.
Go Seahorses (a Vermonter will know where I went to high school

Since you are a Comfort Inn a link exchange with other Comfort Inns might help.

A link exchange with ski resorts near you would be good too.

The SEO types might have ideas to help here.

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Hi,

Very nice website. Congratulations. Just a few small things that caught my eye.

You have "Heading south on I-91" but on the same page you have "Heading North on I-93". Which is it? Use of capitals needs fixing here.

I also agree with corporateface... you can also possibly link from your website via such text as in the "Area Attractions" section -- linking to other peoples' websites could be a value for you as, in future, when your guests have gone home they might use your website as a portal.

Cheers,
Matt

Great job with the site, and I agree with the other posts as well. The one thing that struck me when observing was the quality of some of the images, they weren't as crisp and sharp as I'd like to see.

As with the others, I cannot find a fault with your site (but one - mentioned below). It is a great site and it does what very few sites do... ie. If I were to come to Vermont, your hotel is the place I would stay.

As for the (very minor) fault, I have to agree with greenjedi - images are not crisp.

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Site looks good.
There is quiet a bit of tweaking possible.

I notice that there are a lot of 1x1 gif images which don't seem to serve any purpose, other than cause excessive html-source.

There are a height's missing on the jpgs.

The use of indenting/white space is indeed a bit excessive.

The use of the /html/ directory pushes your content an extra level down in the directory structure which Google may not like so much.

Now some comments on the first page:

I would suggest adding title tags to some (or all) of your links.
Add alt tags to the main images.
The title may be considered too long by some search engines, so place your main keywords first.

It would be worth checking the consistency of the body-text-words, title tag and the meta description and keywords. Your +- 5 major keywords should appear in all 4 and be repeated in the body text.
Eg: 'wedding' occurs 6 times in the body-text but not in the title or meta tags.
Eg: 'blend' appears in the title but not in the meta tags, and only once in the body text.
Eg: 'locations' appears as a meta keyword but not in the body-text. Google my see this as spamming and drop the page (or even the website if it happens a lot).
'Vermont' appears 12 times in the meta keywords, which may be seen as excessive, and also there are so many other relevant words in the text that you could use, such as "package, hotel, kingdom, wedding, summer, getaway, village, rooms, meeting, christmas, biking, accommodations, visit, stay, reunions, offers, night, mountains, hiking, fishing"

Review the title text, are people going to search on words like "Charming, unique, blend, style, and, warm, hospitality" .. if not, replace them with more relevant words. The same applies to meta description.

Strangely the 'weddings page' is short on text and on wedding-related-words. bride, bridegroom, marriage, honeymoon, ceremony, jacuzi, reception etc etc (NB. I'm English so the US words may be different but you get the idea.)

Personally I find the repeating of the block of links
at the bottom of the page, and the 2 repeated columns of links and reviews on the right hand side irritating. It's fine for the first page, but gets boring and then irritating when you realise that the actual content of the sub-pages is quite small cmpared to the 'standaard' links etc.
Use each page as a new 'search' opportunity and write the text, title and meta tags accordingly.
Make your major keyword the first word in the title e.g. "Golf vacations in Vermont"

Have fun, win awards.
Brian

Hi,

Great looking site.

I looked at your source. You have keywords starting with "inns motels hotels vermont, hotels in ...."

Doing a search on "inns motels hotels vermont" you rank well. Doing a search on "inns vermont" you didn't do very well. The same is true of "Vermont motels".

Google sees "inns motels hotels vermont" as a single keyword phrase. I would add "inns Vermont, motels Vermont, hotels Vermont, Vermont" as four new key phrases/words. Maybe someone in here could cite the max recommended keyword length. Sorry I don't know off hand but I would use as many variants as possible of Vermont and inns, motels, hotels.

Great looking place. Makes me want to load up the pit bull and take a road trip.
JF